Interview by Danny Fields - Paulo César Gadioli: How Please Kill Me Changed My Life
Paulo César Gadioli is an extremely modern young man, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, of Italian and Portuguese ancestry. As a child, he and his family did a brief stint in Germany where Paulo, thrust in a linguistic sink-or-swim situation, learned to read, understand and speak German in a hurry.
When his family returned to Brazil, Paulo continued his education, and taught himself English—utilizing video games and a dictionary as tools. He graduated from college at 22, with a degree in journalism, and a love of music and movies—which led him to a course in film-making in New York. That’s where an astonishing coincidence brought Paulo into the very home of Gillian McCain, co-author of his all-time favorite book, Please Kill Me.
Link to: Connect Savannah article.
(Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain will be reading at
the Bay Street Theater on Tuesday, January 29)
Click HERE for other Reading Tour DatesLive through this: A conversation with Legs McNeilPunk music's articulate scribe visits Savannah Jan. 29
I sent Bob Gruen a PKM t-shirt to France, cause he was on tour with Green Day. It was when we were first launching the website. I sent a note in the package that read, "Bob, take the shirt out of the package, put the t-shirt on Billie Joe, now take the fucking picture!" Bob handed the note to Billie Joe, who said,
"I guess we'd better do what he says..."
-Legs McNeil
Punk Professor Confesses: Iggy’s Touch May Have Saved My Life! Danny Fields interviews Maria Damon - I had the pleasure of meeting Maria Damon on February 9, 2011 at Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye's 40th anniversary performance at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. She’s a poetry scholar—so it turns out we had a few friends in common—but imagine my bigger surprise when she told me she was a huge Please Kill Me fan and that our book was a major factor in inspiring her to teach a course on Punk Literature at the University of Minnesota. - Gillian